2. Different Kinds of Energy
Subtle energies
In the last 200 years, the application of increasingly complex tech-
nologies has accelerated enormously, overwhelming the far more
subtle energy systems of Nature, with dire consequences for us all.
For while some will argue that these have brought benefits to
many on the material level, the quality of life on the planet has
seriously deteriorated, with severe damage to ecosystems and to
biodiversity.
No one explains, as convincingly as Schauberger, just how this
has come about. He found that the energy our technology propa-
gates is destructive of the evolutionary impulse in life forms, pre-
cipitating a downward spiral in the quality of organisms, and in the
human quality of life. Imagine trying to be creative in a steel mill
or a slaughterhouse! The pride we hold for our Machiavellian
machines that pour out incessant noise and heat is based on the
mistaken belief that we represent the summit of evolution.
Schauberger pointed out that, besides having the ego-centred
need to control, modern science sees only the surface of things.^1 Its
reductionist (everything in separate compartments) and material-
istic agenda prevents an understanding of the energetic processes
which, as Schauberger demonstrated, are essential for any material
substance to come into being; in the same way that an idea or
impulse must precede any human action. These subtle energies are
essential to the increasing quality Nature demands in her evolu-
tionary process. When these are subdued, only deterioration can
result, which inevitably also affects human aspirations. So energy
is cause, form is effect. An understanding of any creative process is
impossible without true awareness of subtle energies.
Schauberger's worldview
Viktor Schauberger took the ancients' view of the Sun as the male
inseminator of Earth to create bountiful Nature. But, also like the
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